Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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occupancyTuts: Occupancy modelling tutorials with RPresence658
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FlywayNet: A hidden semi‐Markov model for inferring the structure of migratory bird networks from count data182
Revticulate: An R framework for interaction with RevBayes165
A network theoretic method for the basic reproductive number for infectious diseases135
Assimilating ecological theory with empiricism: Using constrained generalized additive models to enhance survival analyses132
AF‐vapeR: A multivariate genome scan for detecting parallel evolution using allele frequency change vectors122
Nearest neighbour distance matching Leave‐One‐Out Cross‐Validation for map validation112
poems: R package for simulating species' range dynamics using pattern‐oriented validation107
BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large‐scale bat migration patterns107
ECOGEN: Bird sounds generation using deep learning93
OCCUR Shiny application: A user‐friendly guide for curating species occurrence records91
Empirical dynamic programming for model‐free ecosystem‐based management89
plantR: An R package and workflow for managing species records from biological collections80
Integrated community occupancy models: A framework to assess occurrence and biodiversity dynamics using multiple data sources77
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Using cloud radar to investigate the effect of rainfall on migratory insect flight75
Nighthawk: Acoustic monitoring of nocturnal bird migration in the Americas73
Exploring congruent diversification histories with flexibility and parsimony72
How to get the most out of phylogenetic imputation without abusing it69
A new centrality index designed for multilayer networks66
Exploring noise, degeneracy and determinism in biological networks with the einet package65
Incidence‐data‐based species richness estimation via a Beta‐Binomial model64
Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution64
Using identity calls to detect structure in acoustic datasets63
Filtering heart rates using data densities: The boxfilter R package63
The Flora Incognita app – Interactive plant species identification62
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An open future for MEE58
Integrated movement models for individual tracking and species distribution data58
Gone with the wind: Inferring bird migration with light‐level geolocation, wind and activity measurements56
Going beyond richness: Modelling the BEF relationship using species identity, evenness, richness and species interactions via the DImodels R package56
EcoEnsemble: A general framework for combining ecosystem models in R55
A general framework for jointly modelling thermal and hydric constraints on developing eggs55
Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals55
Long‐term automated visual monitoring of Antarctic benthic fauna53
Navigating through space and time: A methodological approach to quantify spatiotemporal connectivity using stream flow data as a case study53
Moving‐resting process with measurement error in animal movement modeling53
A systematic method for hypothesis synthesis and conceptual model development52
MoonShine: A software‐hardware system for simulating moonlight ground illuminance and re‐creating artificial moonlight cycles in a laboratory environment52
treetop: A Shiny‐based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists51
Scalable semantic 3D mapping of coral reefs with deep learning50
Continuous on‐board behaviour classification using accelerometry: A case study with a new GPS‐3G‐Bluetooth system in Pacific black ducks50
A 3D modelling approach to measuring structural characteristics of bird nest interiors48
Individual‐based simulations of genome evolution with ancestry: The GenomeAdmixR R package47
Chronospaces: An R package for the statistical exploration of divergence times promotes the assessment of methodological sensitivity47
Multi‐trait point pattern reconstruction of plant ecosystems46
Benchmarking imputation methods for categorical biological data46
Classifying the activity states of small vertebrates using automated VHF telemetry45
Plant biodiversity assessment through soil eDNA reflects temporal and local diversity44
Dynamic visualisation of million‐tip trees: The OneZoom project42
Measuring reflectance of tiny organisms: The promise of species level biocrust remote sensing39
Overall dynamic body acceleration measures activity differently on large versus small aquatic animals38
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Introducing recurrent event analyses to assess species interactions based on camera‐trap data: A comparison with time‐to‐first‐event approaches38
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Retrodiction of forest demography: Backward simulation with reverse matrix models36
treats: A modular R package for simulating trees and traits36
Parasitic flowering plant collections embody the extended specimen36
RFIDeep: Unfolding the potential of deep learning for radio‐frequency identification36
Handbook of protocols for standardized measurements of floral traits for pollinators in temperate communities34
Automated retrieval of information on threatened species from online sources using machine learning33
Building ecological networks with local ecological knowledge in hyper‐diverse and logistically challenging ecosystems33
Detecting and reducing heterogeneity of error in acoustic classification32
Reflectance spectroscopy allows rapid, accurate and non‐destructive estimates of functional traits from pressed leaves32
Automated identification of diverse Neotropical pollen samples using convolutional neural networks31
RevGadgets: An R package for visualizing Bayesian phylogenetic analyses from RevBayes31
A Double machine learning trend model for citizen science data30
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Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation29
Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology28
Measuring understorey vegetation structure using a novel mixed‐reality device28
PicoCam: High‐resolution 3D imaging of live animals and preserved specimens28
PleistoDist: A toolbox for visualising and quantifying the effects of Pleistocene sea‐level change on island archipelagos28
Using standardized fish‐specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) to quantify cryptobenthic fish communities27
An aquaria set‐up for long‐term, multiple‐stressor research in marine organisms27
When to monitor or control: Informed invasive species management using a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) framework27
The Wayqecha Amazon Cloud Curtain Ecosystem Experiment: A new experimental method to manipulate fog water inputs in terrestrial systems27
qad: An R‐package to detect asymmetric and directed dependence in bivariate samples27
Linear polyacrylamide is highly efficient in precipitating and purifying environmental and ancient DNA27
Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data27
Existing and emerging uses of drones in restoration ecology26
Unbiased population heterozygosity estimates from genome‐wide sequence data26
Accelerating advances in landscape connectivity modelling with the ConScape library26
The r package enerscape: A general energy landscape framework for terrestrial movement ecology26
Issues in calibrating models with multiple unbalanced constraints: the significance of systematic model and data errors26
TreeCompR: Tree competition indices for inventory data and 3D point clouds25
Hidden Markov models: Pitfalls and opportunities in ecology25
Use of amino acid isotope analysis to investigate capital versus income breeding strategies in migratory avian species25
Metabolic proxy for cephalopods: Stable carbon isotope values recorded in different biogenic carbonates25
A cost‐effective method to passively sample communities at the forest canopy–aerosphere interface25
Integrated SDM database: Enhancing the relevance and utility of species distribution models in conservation management25
Tracking the frequency of phytoplankton clonal lineages using multispectral image flow cytometry and neural networks25
A wireless, remotely operable and easily customizable robotic flower system25
Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses25
Generating spatially realistic environmental null models with the shift‐&‐rotate approach helps evaluate false positives in species distribution modelling25
In situ estimation of active dispersal abilities in reef fish early life stages using tracking technologies24
Optimising sampling designs for habitat fragmentation studies24
Writing a massively multi‐authored paper: Overcoming barriers to meaningful authorship for all24
TaxoNERD: Deep neural models for the recognition of taxonomic entities in the ecological and evolutionary literature24
Detecting seasonal episodic‐like spatio‐temporal memory patterns using animal movement modelling24
OpenSoundscape: An open‐source bioacoustics analysis package for Python23
A process approach to quality management doublesNEONsensor data quality23
The CV is dead, long live the CV!23
The power of forecasts to advance ecological theory23
An automatic classifier of bat sonotypes around the world23
Estimating process‐based model parameters from species distribution data using the evolutionary algorithm CMA‐ES22
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A framework to model a web of linkage disequilibria for natural allotetraploid populations22
The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography22
Limits to ecological forecasting: Estimating uncertainty for critical transitions with deep learning22
tidysdm: Leveraging the flexibility of tidymodels for species distribution modelling in R22
Evo‐Scope: Fully automated assessment of correlated evolution on phylogenetic trees22
Temporal design for aquatic organismal sampling across the National Ecological Observatory Network22
NAPS: Integrating pose estimation and tag‐based tracking22
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Estimating species misclassification with occupancy dynamics and encounter rates: A semi‐supervised, individual‐level approach21
The uniform AUC: Dealing with the representativeness effect in presence–absence models21
sabinaNSDM: An R package for spatially nested hierarchical species distribution modelling21
poolHelper: An R package to help in designing Pool‐Seq studies21
Monitoring fast‐moving animals—Building a customized camera system and evaluation toolset21
How to generate accurate continuous thermal regimes from sparse but regular temperature measurements21
Synthesizing forecasts to inform decision‐making and advance ecological theory20
ipsecr: An R package for awkward spatial capture–recapture data20
Precise tactile stimulation of worker ants by a robotic manipulator reveals that individual responses are density‐ and context‐dependent20
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soundscape_IR: A source separation toolbox for exploring acoustic diversity in soundscapes19
Scaling up uncertain predictions to higher levels of organisation tends to underestimate change19
aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation19
PhycoCanopy: An R Shiny tool for exploring primary production in macroalgal canopies19
Practical guidelines and the EMLN R package for handling ecological multilayer networks19
Design and performance of an ecosystem‐scale forest soil warming experiment with infrared heater arrays18
Using ensemble methods to improve the robustness of deep learning for image classification in marine environments18
Managing risk and uncertainty in systematic conservation planning with insufficient information18
Guidelines for the prediction of species interactions through binary classification18
SlicerMorph: An open and extensible platform to retrieve, visualize and analyse 3D morphology18
Scalable phylogenetic Gaussian process models improve the detectability of environmental signals on local extinctions for many Red List species18
Methods to account for incomplete viewsheds in distance sampling18
The Latent Dirichlet Allocation model applied to airborne LiDAR data: A case study on mapping forest degradation associated with fragmentation and fire in the Amazon region18
Estimating interaction strengths for diverse horizontal systems using performance data17
soundClass: An automatic sound classification tool for biodiversity monitoring using machine learning17
A low‐cost IoT network to monitor microclimate variables in ecosystems17
Unifying individual differences in personality, predictability and plasticity: A practical guide17
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Pitfalls arising from site selection bias in population monitoring defy simple heuristics17
starve: An R package for spatio‐temporal analysis of research survey data using nearest‐neighbour Gaussian processes17
A GLMM approach for combining multiple relative abundance surfaces17
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Extending isolation by resistance to predict genetic connectivity16
Including the invisible fraction in whole population studies: A guide to the genetic sampling of unhatched bird eggs16
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Quantifying the utilisation of blue, green and brown resources by riparian predators: A combined use of amino acid isotopes and fatty acids16
Streamlining analysis methods for large acoustic surveys using automatic detectors with operator validation16
Introducing the combined atlas framework for large‐scale web‐based data visualization: The GloNAF atlas of plant invasion16
CaptuRING: A do‐it‐yourself tool for wood sample digitization16
Hard tissue thin‐sectioning techniques in vertebrate paleohistology: Review, synthesis and improvements16
ecochange: An R‐package to derive ecosystem change indicators from freely available earth observation products16
allodb: An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots16
Acoustic and archival technologies join forces: A combination tag16
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A conceptual framework for host‐associated microbiomes of hybrid organisms16
Correction to ‘The Aquatic Metatron: A large‐scale experimental facility to study the combined effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on aquatic meta‐ecosystems’16
Population assignment from genotype likelihoods for low‐coverage whole‐genome sequencing data15
A unifying framework for quantifying and comparing n‐dimensional hypervolumes15
PiCAM: A Raspberry Pi‐based open‐source, low‐power camera system for monitoring plant phenology in Arctic environments15
3D photogrammetry and deep‐learning deliver accurate estimates of epibenthic biomass15
Generating continuous maps of genetic diversity using moving windows15
Long‐term collar deployment leads to bias in soil respiration measurements15
A framework for post‐processing bird tracks from automated tracking radar systems15
The use of weighted averages of Hedges' d in meta‐analysis: Is it worth it?15
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ENphylo: A new method to model the distribution of extremely rare species15
PoolDilutionR: An R package for easy optimization of isotope pool dilution calculations15
Real‐time alerts from AI‐enabled camera traps using the Iridium satellite network: A case‐study in Gabon, Central Africa15
Stable isotope fingerprinting traces essential amino acid assimilation and multichannel feeding in a vertebrate consumer15
isotracer: An R package for the analysis of tracer addition experiments15
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Impact of acoustic index parameters on soundscape comparisons15
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CATS: A high‐performance software framework for simulating plant migration in changing environments14
ISSRseq: An extensible method for reduced representation sequencing14
Clustering and unconstrained ordination with Dirichlet process mixture models14
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The role of large language models in interdisciplinary research: Opportunities, challenges and ways forward14
ChirpArray: A low‐cost, easy‐to‐construct microphone array for long‐term ecoacoustic monitoring14
Analysing biodiversity observation data collected in continuous time: Should we use discrete‐ or continuous‐time occupancy models?14
Connectivity conservation planning through deep reinforcement learning14
Sap Flow Analyzer: A tool to standardize sap flow estimation and scaling to whole‐tree water use using the HFD method14
TransMCL enables the assembly of full‐length coding genes for collecting complete hierarchical orthogroups14
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rphenoscate: An R package for semantics‐aware evolutionary analyses of anatomical traits14
Regional ecological forecasting across scales: A manifesto for a biodiversity hotspot14
bistro: An R package for vector bloodmeal identification by short tandem repeat overlap13
Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems13
The geodiv r package: Tools for calculating gradient surface metrics13
Cost‐effective seafloor habitat mapping using a portable speedy sea scanner and deep‐learning‐based segmentation: A sea trial at Pujada Bay, Philippines13
Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions13
Applying computer vision to digitised natural history collections for climate change research: Temperature‐size responses in British butterflies13
rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes13
Broad‐scale applications of the Raspberry Pi: A review and guide for biologists13
HemiPy: A Python module for automated estimation of forest biophysical variables and uncertainties from digital hemispherical photographs13
Estimating animal density for a community of species using information obtained only from camera‐traps13
A model selection approach to structural equation modelling: A critical evaluation and a road map for ecologists13
Continuous‐surface geographic assignment of migratory animals using strontium isotopes: A case study with monarch butterflies13
Realising the promise of large data and complex models13
A continuous‐score occupancy model that incorporates uncertain machine learning output from autonomous biodiversity surveys13
HSC3D: A Python package to quantify three‐dimensional habitat structural complexity13
A heuristic method to evaluate consequences for flight control and stability induced by attachment of biologging devices to birds and bats12
Reconstructing bird trajectories from pressure and wind data using a highly optimized hidden Markov model12
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EEMtoolbox: A user‐friendly R package for flexible ensemble ecosystem modelling12
An RGB‐D framework for capturing soft‐sediment microtopography12
A Monte Carlo resampling framework for implementing goodness‐of‐fit tests in spatial capture‐recapture models12
Decoding the footsteps of the African savanna: Classifying wildlife using seismic signals and machine learning12
ontophylo: Reconstructing the evolutionary dynamics of phenomes using new ontology‐informed phylogenetic methods12
patter: Particle algorithms for animal tracking in R and Julia12
mpmsim: An R package for simulating matrix population models12
plantTracker: An R package to translate maps of plant occurrence into demographic data12
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metaRange: A framework to build mechanistic range models12
A multi‐property assessment of intensity of use provides a functional understanding of animal movement12
High‐magnification platform for characterising microscopic communities12
Bioregionalization analyses with the bioregion R package12
Wellcounter: Automated high‐throughput phenotyping for aquatic microinvertebrates12
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A new tool to improve the estimates of interaction rewiring considering the whole community composition12
BatRack: An open‐source multi‐sensor device for wildlife research12
USE it: Uniformly sampling pseudo‐absences within the environmental space for applications in habitat suitability models12
AMMonitor 2: Remote monitoring of biodiversity in an adaptive framework in R12
Simple assay quantifying sediment resuspension effects on marine carbon storage12
Deep reinforcement learning for conservation decisions11
Introduction to deep learning methods for multi‐species predictions11
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Impact network analysis and the ina r package: Decision support for regional management interventions11
Avoiding confusion: Modelling image identification surveys with classification errors11
dentist: Quantifying uncertainty by sampling points around maximum likelihood estimates11
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An automated radiotelemetry system (ARTS) for monitoring small mammals11
Method for maintaining adult solitary bee Centris analis under laboratory conditions11
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DA: Population structure inference using discriminant analysis11
Integrating eco‐evolutionary dynamics into matrix population models for structured populations: Discrete and continuous frameworks11
Know what you don't know: Embracing state uncertainty in disease‐structured multistate models11
Detecting stochasticity in population time series using a non‐parametric test of intrinsic predictability11
Fieldwork in conservation organisations–A review of methodological challenges, opportunities and ethics11
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